The read
It runs a compact 58m.
Synopsis
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Grigoriy RoshalDirector
- Vera StroyevaScreenplay
- Serafima RoshalScreenplay
Cast
- Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
- Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
- Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
- Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
- Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
- Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
- Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown
- Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
- Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
- Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
- Igor DoroninCast
- Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)
Themes
partially lost film